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Creating A Computer-Enhanced Geology Learning Environment
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Discussions
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Discussion 1. Students and faculty discuss computer-dependent learning activities
"In my old school, visualizing things in three dimensions had to be done with paper, diagrams, and models...In just one class at SDSU, I learned more than I did in probably a year and a half at my old school..."
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Discussion 2. Faculty and students discuss the personal characteristics necessary to the success of reform efforts
"Eric really is a pioneer and all pioneers carry with them a double edged sword. The pioneer part is he has his eye twenty years down the road. And in that way some people support him greatly. In other ways, people say he is just off in the wilderness, he doesn't know what he is talking about."
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Discussion 3. Faculty discuss the process of networking
"...if you want to work on accomplishing a lot of things like this, you have to go work outside of your own department with other people who know something about cognition and/or learning. It is really helpful to work with people from other universities. It helps you appreciate what you have in a positive way, see what things other people have that you would like to mimic."
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Discussion 4. Faculty discuss the dissolution of the "Atlas complex"
"We still have some faculty members that think technology provides activity and no content. They think that the students think they're learning because they're clicking buttons and looking at screens, but they're not really learning anything. "
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